Trouble is a spear that never falters; no man may outrun it. -Viking proverb Tor, once a mighty Viking warrior, has shed his old ways and settled in a sleepy village in a forgotten Fjord. His hands, once so skilled with a weapon, aren't much good on the farm, but Tor is happy and his family fed. When a mysterious Viking ship washes ashore with a handful of half-dead survivors, Tor's carefully constructed life begins...